Archive for March, 2016
Starting your investment portfolio can seem like a challenge, especially with the vast number of stocks, mutual funds, and other options out there. What is important is to figure out what makes your financial plan unique, and how you can make your money work for you, not against you. If you have friends or coworkers […]
America leads the world in economic productivity, total economic output, earnings and wealth per citizen and a variety of other categories. Now we can add something new to the list: time spent in automobiles during our daily commutes to work. The annual Traffic Scorecard compiled by INRIX in Kirkland, WA reveals that the average automobile […]
We’re in one of the longest-running, biggest wealth-producing bull markets in history, but you wouldn’t know it from the headlines or the gloomy mood of investors. On March 9, the bull market in U.S. stocks, represented by the S&P 500, celebrated its seventh year. The index has risen 194% since closing at 676.53 on March […]
Most people have seen bogus emails purported to be from the executors of the estate of Nigerian princes or other obscure foreign notables who want to give them millions of dollars, and sometimes they get bogus calls telling them they can win a lottery sweepstakes or receive debt relief. But apparently one of the most […]